Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-29
GOING THE OTHER WAY.
A Red.Headed Girl Ce11s the Re-
suit of Her observations.

The girl with the reddest hair IL
New York works in Macy's. on the
second floor. She lives in Third
avenue near Sixteenth street. She il
vivacious and observant, and dom
mind bit being told that her hair i
red.
"I've read good bit in the paper,
lately" she remarked to journalistic
friend recently, ''about the red
eaded girl and the white horse and
the funny condolences between them.
Now. | am q red-headed girl mvseli
(here she roguishly arched her eye
browse. and l can tell you some right
queer things l have noticed myself
fhev are true, too, and that's more
than you can sly about one-half that's
WI item up" looking wise and re-
proachful.
Il have noticed" she continued
Chat | hardly ever meet a VIII te
no. Sc coming toward me. Nine-tenihs
of all the white horses l see in the
streets, when am walking TO or from
my work, are either going in my direc-
ton or they are passing along the
cross STREETS Yesterday l walked
from the store along Thirteenth street
to Third avenue and up Third avenue
and during the week | counted fifty
five white horses. Only three OF them
were coming toward Ine from an
oppo- tie direction. Two Of the three
were hitched to one wagon. pass
more white horses on Sundays than OF
any other day. | usually see more
white horses on rainy days than or
clear days. Pve kept pretty CLOSE
watch for white horses for the pas
six months. just for the fun of the
thing, and because when l started
didn't believe in the white horse
theory at all. l believe it now, but
can't begin to explain it. The funni
est thing of all is that every time
put on a red jersey most of the white
horses l meet are in pairs. have
been in Central Park on many Sun
days the past summer, and l have
seen fewer white horses there in 6
whole afternoon than | can meet any
day on my way home. | guess the
red-headed girls don't 60 out to the
park very strong.
There are lots of little circumstan
ces / have observed about the white
horse. l kept count Of the white
horses l saw on Broadway, between
Fourteenth street and Twenty-third
street, in July, August and Srptem
her, and the total number was 4l53
You might think that when two red
headed girls walk together there
would be more white horses in sight
but | don't think this is the case
Several times | have been in com
pany with friend who is employed
in Ridlevs' who has very red hair, bu
we wouldn't see any more white
horses than if l had be- n alone
There is one thing ! want to say abou,
the white horses. The real white
horses are scarce, and am sure from
my own observation that the genuine
white horse doesn't appear in the
vicinity OF one-tenth of the number o
redheaded girls. The horses that are
called white horses are generally iron
gray or notified gray horses OF medium
or dark shades. The real white
horses, l have heard, coincide will
something else; but, anyway, they
won't begin to match the red-headed
girls.
II have been told that white
horse will follow IA red-headed girl
l don't believe it. No white horse
ever followed me. They don't appear
to notice me, and am quite sure they
don't know anything about the stories
in the papers. They say that red
headed girls are fond OF white horses.
This is foolish. l like black horses.
My friend in Ridley's prefers a dark
bay horse. | never met a red-headed
girl who cared for white horse any
more than for any other colored horse. u
Il Kansas City Star.